V God supports Soneium's 'Meme Coin Blacklist' well: demonstrating openness for enterprises to adopt L2

On the first day of the launch of Sony Group's Layer2 project Soneium on the Mainnet, it caused strong dissatisfaction among community users by blacklisting some tokens. Regarding Soneium's blacklisting behavior, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin praised it, stating that the blacklisting of tokens provides a good demonstration for enterprises operating Layer2, allowing them to choose how much on-chain control they want to retain. (Background information: Analysis of SONY's 8-year Web3 process: Why is the potential of L2 'Soneium' possibly overestimated?) (Background information: Vitalik criticizes the current state of the coin circle: Cryptocurrency has deviated from cryptography and cybersecurity, and this is a failure.) Japanese electronics giant Sony Group previously collaborated with Web3 infrastructure developer Starale Labs to launch the Ethereum Layer2 project Soneium, attempting to create an on-chain ecosystem exclusive to Sony. However, on the first day of Soneium's Mainnet launch, it blacklisted some tokens, which caused strong dissatisfaction among community users. Soneium blacklists meme coins that infringe copyright. According to The Block, Soneium's development team blacklisted some meme coins that are suspected of infringing intellectual property rights on the first day of Mainnet launch, which triggered dissatisfaction among many community users. It is understood that Soneium's blacklisting action this time mainly targets tokens that imitate or use brands recognized as protected by Sony or Soneium. However, this behavior also affected the trading of blacklisted meme coins, resulting in losses for users holding the tokens. In response, the founder of Pumpfun also criticized Soneium, causing users holding 'blacklisted tokens' to suffer unnecessary losses: Sony's new Ethereum Layer 2 is actively blocking meme coins they don't like, causing everyone's holdings to be zeroed out instantly. So, why do you think other centralized Layer 2s won't do the same thing at critical moments? Don't take your freedom for granted. Kawz, the founder of Time.fun, also criticized Soneium, stating that it rug pulled ETH worth more than $100,000 from users on the day of the launch: I have never seen such a thing. If you want to be a licensed blockchain, no problem. But they didn't choose to whitelist developers, they chose to freeze contracts, which is essentially playing suckers with their users. In response to the strong rebound from the community, Sony Block Solutions Labs, the developer of Soneium, also softened its stance in a subsequent statement, stating that previously blacklisted projects would be included in a suspicious token list, providing a mechanism for blacklisted token appeals, and emphasizing that user assets are not frozen: We have taken measures to protect intellectual property and ensure that the ecosystem is fair and inclusive. In order to responsibly promote innovation while safeguarding the rights of creators, we have temporarily restricted specific contracts at the RPC level. Here is how we ensure fairness and transparency: Provide a grace period for marked contracts Communicate directly with project teams to resolve intellectual property issues Provide an appeal mechanism for blacklisted contracts This gives developers the opportunity to address concerns before final resolution. User assets are not frozen, and our goal is to minimize disruption while maintaining the rights of creators. Vitalik Buterin praised Soneium's 'blacklisting behavior' as a good demonstration. On the other hand, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin also expressed his views on Soneium's 'centralized' blacklisting behavior. He believes that Soneium's blacklisting action is a very good demonstration that Ethereum Layer 2 is beneficial for both businesses and users. Businesses can choose how much control they want to retain on-chain in a very granular way: Soneium's situation is a good live demonstration of the benefits of launching an Ethereum Layer 2 for businesses and users. Businesses can make very fine-grained choices around how much control they keep vs give to users. But whatever rules they choose, that's what the rules are. All content is on-chain, transparent, and available for third-party audits. You can build a very closed system with no exit mechanism, where operators can freely edit the state root, but users will fully understand the system they are participating in; L2beat and many independent network detectives will also help them identify risks. You can also build a completely open system. Or, you can design a system that lets users know they can send transactions on Layer 2 when needed, but faces greater resistance—the sequencer can throttle, but cannot censor transactions. This is basically what Sony has done. In addition, Vitalik also added that all of this is the operation of a free market. As an ecosystem, the main things we need to follow are: Whether a large amount of financial activity happens in a completely open environment. Whether there are enough tools to help users understand the characteristics of the on-chain environment they are participating in. Although Vitalik emphasizes that the team has the right to choose how much 'control' to hold, does this contradict the decentralized nature advocated by blockchain? This is worth pondering. In addition, in the above-mentioned case, many Soneium on-chain users suffered unnecessary financial losses due to the sudden blacklisting of tokens. Does this also mean that users who are unfamiliar or unaware of the 'rules' are destined to be pawns manipulated by project parties?